Family of Captain Humphrey Keyes & Marcella Wade
Humphrey Keyes was born 29 August 1721 in Marlborough, Middlesex, MA, and died 19 April 1793 in Keyes Ferry, Charlestown, Jefferson, VA.
First wife Marcella Wade was born 1723 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, and died 26 April 1762 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.. They were married 26 April 1744 in Boston, Suffolk, MA.
Their children were:
1- Francis Keyes b: 4 June 1749 in Mystick, near Boston, Massachusetts
2- John Keyes b: 6 October 1751 in Mystick, near Boston, Massachusetts; d: Abt. 1751
3- John Wade Keyes b: 25 September 1752 in Mystick, near Boston, Massachusetts; d: 13 February 1839 in Athens, Limestone, AL
+Louisa Talbott b: 20 April 1756 in Alexandria, Arlington, VA; m: 27 January 1773 in Alexandria, VA; d: 6 November 1836 in Athens, Limestone, AL
Second wife Sarah Hall was born Abt. 1745, and died (unknown). They were married Abt. 1762 in Virginia.
4- Humphrey Keyes b: 13 November 1763 in Keyes Ferry, Jefferson, West Virginia; d: 11 October 1833 in Springfield, Sangamon, IL
+Phoebe Strider b: Abt. 1764; m: Abt. 1785; d: Bef. 1803
*2nd Wife of Humphrey Keyes:
+Sarah Handley b: Abt. 1776 in Monroe, Union, VA; m: 24 April 1803 [John/Mary Harrison]; d: 29 May 1846 in Alcove Spring, Marshall, Kansas
5- Sarah Keyes b: 11 November 1764 in Keyes Ferry, Jefferson Co., West Virginia; d: 1845
+Thomas White b: 17 March 1754 in New Castle, Delaware; m: 13 October 1783 in Keyes Ferry, Berkeley, VA [John/Isabella McCracken]; d: 10 September 1839 in Lessburgh, Orange Township, Carroll, Ohio
6- Lucretia Keyes b: Abt. 1766; d: Abt. 1810 in Lexington, KY
+William Pyle b: Abt. 1762 in Maryland; m: Abt. 1784 [William/Margaret Wright]
7- Gershom Keyes b: Abt. 1768 in Keyes Ferry, Jefferson, West Virginia
+Susan Wood b: Abt. 1769 m: Abt. 1790; d: Abt. 1793
8- Thomas Keyes b: February 1771 in Keyes Ferry, Jefferson, West Virginia; d: December 1828 in Charles Town, VA
+Margaret ------
9- Eliza Keyes b: 20 November 1774 in Keyes Ferry, VA; d: 20 April 1859 in Charles Town, VA
+Capt. George North b: Abt. 1751 in Philadelphia, PA; m: 30 October 1794 in Halltown, VA; d: 30 December 1814 in Fairfax Co., VA
10- Ruth Keyes b: Abt. 1776
+Capt. John O'Bannon
11- Catherine Keyes b: Abt. 1778 in Keyes Ferry, Jefferson, West Virginia; d: 2 May 1844
+David Humphreys b: June 1775 in Charleston, Chester, PA; m: 7 August 1797
Notes for Humphrey Keyes:
- From Genealogy of Robert Keyes and Solomon Keyes and Their Descendants" (Asa Keyes, 1880):
"Humphrey Keyes was a Sea Captain, married in New England, probably in Boston, Marcella Wade, had two sons, was wrecked off the coast of Turkey, and taken captive by the Algerines. He escaped and returned home after some years, to find that his wife supposing him dead had married another, with whom she passed the remainder of her life. After her death, Capt. Humphrey married in Virginia, Sarah Hall, born 1745, consequently ten years old at the time we first hear of Gersham at his ferry on the Shenandoah. Her three brothers were the founders of Halltown, in Jefferson Co., and in ‘notes on Jefferson Co., Virginia’ printed in Va., 1857, we find that ‘Sarah lived with her parents in a little dale near a fine orchard, at the foot of the hill where Rion Hall now stands.’ The same record states that Capt. Humphrey Keyes was proprietor of Keyes Ferry in 1775. Capt. Humphrey died April 19, 1793, so says an old family record, now in possession of Jno. T. Keyes, Bristol, Tenn., which record gives also the birth of John, son of Humphrey."
- Mystik was a section of the town of Winchester. Mystic Plantation is now called Medford. The Keyes listed there were: Francis Keyes b. 4 June 1749, son of Humphry; and John Keyes b. 6 October 1751, son of Humphry.
- 1764 Rent Roll, Frederick Co., VA - Humphrey Keyes
Parents of Marcella Wade - unknown
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